Frederick



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK SPEK, OF VAYNESBOROUGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-WHEELS.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,906, dated October1G, llil'i.

To all whom it may cozzcera:

Be it known that I, FREDERJCK SPEGK, of Vaynesborough, in the county ofFranklin and State ot" Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements iu Water- Wheels; and 1 do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description ot' the same,reference being had to the accompanyin g drawings, and to the letters ofreference marked thereon.

In the annexed drawings, making part of this invention, Figure 1represents a plan view with the cap or top of the upper wheel taken ott.Fig. 2 represents a vertical section.

This wheel consists of two parts-an inner aud au outer wheel.

The outer wheel is formed by taking a disk or wheel, A, and a rim, B,separating and securing them together by means of a series of curvedtangential buckets, C C C, which are placed between them, as shown. Tothc wheel or disk A, at i. s center, is secured a hol low shaft, I).

E represents the inner wheel, which is made of a solid block, withbuckets cut in its periphery, which buckets may bc made straight fromtop to bottom, or they may be curved near the bottom, as is the caseinthis instance.

G represents a shaft, which passes through the center ot' this wheelfrom its under side, sufticient of the end of said shaft being leftbelow the wheel to make a bearing, which it has in an opening in asuitable step. This shaft G is continued above the wheel E, and passesthrough the hollow shaft I) ot" wheel above.

Tater is admitted to the inner wheel through the openiu gs formedbetween the buckets C U, and striking the buckets ot' the wheel E drivessaid wheel in one direction, while the reaction ot' the water causes theouter wheel to move in the opposite direction.

In transferring power from this wheel, it will be necessary to have thetwo shafts D and Gr so connected by gearing that they will act in onedirection, thus obtaining` the power ot' both the inner and outerwheels.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Pateut,is-

The combination ot' the outer and inner wheels as constructed andarranged together, whereby the water, first passing through the bucketsof the outer wheel, acts directly upou the buckets of the inner wheel,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand in thepresence ot1 witmesses.

FREDERICK SPEUK.

Witnesses C. M. ALEXANDER, J. M. MASON.

